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1. Kudos for Kazakhstan's 'Leading Role' as UN General Assembly Campaigns for Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

By Santo D. Banerjee NEW YORK (IDN) – The International Day against Nuclear Tests (IDANT) has been observed around the world on August 29 since 2010. A new element was added this year when President ...

Created on 07 September 2018

2. Test-Ban Treaty Will Produce Tangible Benefits for Humankind

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

Viewpoint by Dr Lassina Zerbo NEW YORK (IDN-INPS) – In a keynote address at the High-Level Meeting of the UN General Assembly to commemorate and promote the International Day Against Nuclear Test ...

Created on 06 September 2018

3. Uncertainty About Whether the U.S. and Russia Can Avert a New Arms Race

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... agency of the International Press Syndicate. facebook.com/IDN.GoingDeeper - twitter.com/nuclearabolition  ...

Created on 02 September 2018

4. Calls for Making Global Nuclear Test Ban Legally Binding

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... issued to mark the International Day against Nuclear Tests (IDANT) on August 29, he declares: "The danger posed by nuclear weapons is particularly concrete when it comes to nuclear tests. Despite a de ...

Created on 30 August 2018

5. Calls for Making Global Nuclear Test Ban Legally Binding

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... issued to mark the International Day against Nuclear Tests (IDANT) on August 29, he declares: "The danger posed by nuclear weapons is particularly concrete when it comes to nuclear tests. Despite a de ...

Created on 30 August 2018

6. California Leads the Way in Support of Nuclear Disarmament

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... organization of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, NAPF shares in the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize that was awarded for our work on this groundbreaking treaty," he added. As the Treaty ...

Created on 30 August 2018

7. U.S. Goes for 'Space Force All the Way'

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... President Truman’s rejection of Stalin’s proposal to place the bomb under international control at the United Nations in 1946. Then President Reagan rejected former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev’s ...

Created on 21 August 2018

8. Little Progress in Nuclear Disarmament Since Helsinki Summit

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... will be subject to conquest roughly once or twice in a millennium. So writes Oona Hathaway and Scott Shapiro in their book, The Internationalists. Strategists say nuclear weapons help keep this peace. ...

Created on 21 August 2018

9. 73 Years On, a Nuclear-Weapons-Free World Remains a Mirage

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... and wider public in Rome, and handed over to Pope Francis, they note that the Treaty "is an international legal instrument that establishes the absolute illegality" of nuclear weapons. [P 08] JAPANESE ...

Created on 20 August 2018

10. 73 Years On, a Nuclear-Weapons-Free World Remains a Mirage

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... and wider public in Rome, and handed over to Pope Francis, they note that the Treaty "is an international legal instrument that establishes the absolute illegality" of nuclear weapons. [P 08] JAPANESE ...

Created on 20 August 2018

11. Advancing Disarmament Within the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... durable peace, security and development by calling for the maintenance of international peace and security with the least diversion of the world’s economic and human resources for arms.   For ...

Created on 10 August 2018

12. No More Hiroshimas, No More Nagasakis, No More Hibakusha

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... in Nagasaki. My country, Portugal, has deep political, cultural and religious ties with this city, going back nearly five centuries. But Nagasaki is not just an international city with a long and fascinating ...

Created on 09 August 2018

13. Trump and Putin Can Put the Brakes on a New, Potentially More Dangerous, Arms Race

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... Nuclear Arms Race? authored by Thomas M. Countryman, former Acting Under Secretary Of State for Arms Control and International Security and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Association, ...

Created on 07 August 2018

14. Rising Nuclear Tensions Call For Elimination Of Atomic Weapons

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... arsenals are being modernized and, in some cases, expanded.  The adoption of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons last year demonstrated the international support that exists for a permanent ...

Created on 06 August 2018

15. Study Finds Congressional Attention on Nuclear Security Waning as Nuclear Terrorism Threat Persists

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... issue of nuclear security, broadly defined by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) as “security of nuclear materials and the facilities that house them," has all but faded from the U.S. national ...

Created on 26 July 2018

16. A U.S.-Russia Summit That Left Trump In The Hot Seat

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... a nuclear apocalypse. *Somar Wijayadasa, a Moscow educated International lawyer was a UNESCO delegate to the UN General Assembly from 1985-1995, and was Representative of UNAIDS at the United Nations ...

Created on 21 July 2018

17. Nuclear Disarmament Is Crucial For Global Security – It Shouldn't Have To Wait

(Nuclear Abolition News and Analyses)

... and arms control were prerequisites for the enhancement of national security and international stability. At the height of the Cold War in the 1980s, NATO Summit declarations were full of debate on arms ...

Created on 15 July 2018

18. UN Nuclear Watchdog Promotes Global Development Agenda

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By Santo D. Banerjee NEW YORK (IDN) – At the High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) on Sustainable Development, concluding on July 18 in New York, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has highlighted ...

Created on 13 July 2018

19. The Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty One Year On

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Viewpoint by Tilman Ruff AM Associate Professor Tilman Ruff AM is co-founder and founding chair of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons which received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017. ...

Created on 13 July 2018

20. Iran Sandwiched Between 'Regime Change' Threat and Menacing Discontent Within

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... not to be identified. According to Bloomberg, Iran's fragile economy, long hurt by international sanctions, mismanagement and corruption, has gone into a downward spiral in recent months in anticipation ...

Created on 09 July 2018